Sacred Texts: The Classics

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: FIFTH TRACTATE: Section 9

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9. Everything brought into being under some principle not itself is contained either within its maker or, if there is any intermediate, within that: having a prior essential to its being, it needs that prior always, otherwise it would not be contained at all. It is the order of nature: The last in the immediately preceding lasts, things of the order of the Firsts within their prior-firsts, and so thing within thing up to the very pinnacle of source.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: FIFTH TRACTATE: Section 9

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